Use your phone to give the safe power
I have a Wyze Gun Safe. I don’t use it very often. My batteries will sometimes nearly go from 100% to 0% before I even use the safe next. It felt like a waste of batteries. I started just using a portable charger to give the safe power through a USB cord when I needed to get into it, and it worked a little better for me that way.
I recently remembered that my phone (and lots of phones now) will do reverse charging (so you can share your battery power with someone else’s phone or another battery device). So I thought that instead of having to go grab a portable charger to power up the safe, I could probably just plug my phone into the safe to get power.
Indeed it works as perfectly as I’d hoped. I plug my phone into the safe with a USB-C to USB-C cord and the safe powers up within a second and I put my finger to it and it just opens right up. I love it!
I will never put batteries in my safe ever again. I just leave a little USB-C cord connected to the safe now, and whenever I need to get into it, I just walk up, plug in my phone, tap my finger and I’m good to go. I told my wife about this discovery and she agrees it’s way better.
Thought I’d share in case anyone else is interested in not having to worry about batteries anymore because most of us probably already have our phones with us everywhere anyway.
Now, if only Wyze would make a safe version 2 that is also fireproof and supports WIRELESS charging and RFID/NFC reading too, so I can walk up and touch my phone to the safe, the safe gets power from my phone, reads the NFC/RFID and authenticates to open it up. That would be so cool! (Credit to @IEatBeans for the wireless charging and digital authentication idea).